Nigel Houghton and Richard Harris Head Up Aptare EMEA Team

Aptare, Inc.
announced the company is expanding into Europe
to work locally with prospective customers, resellers and partners and grow its
established business. To help support Aptare’s growth trajectory Nigel Houghton and Richard Harris will head up the European team based
out of the UK.

 Storage industry veteran Nigel Houghton has been appointed
Regional Sales Manager for Aptare in EMEA. Nigel most recently served as
Enterprise Channel Manager at Quantum where he oversaw strategic relationships
with Pan-European resellers and system integrators.

With 20 years of
technical sales experience, Richard Harris joins Aptare from EMC where he
served as the Technical Services Director for its Data Protection Advisor
product in EMEA. Richard has been appointed as the Technical Sales Consultant
Manager for Aptare in EMEA.

"With over 40 years combined experience,
Richard and Nigel’s track record of putting together tremendously successful
customer and channel programs for high-growth companies, coupled with their
extensive technical experience in Europe make them obvious choices to lead Aptare’s
expansion in EMEA," said Richard Clark, President and CEO at Aptare.
"We are delighted to welcome both
Richard and Nigel to the Aptare team, and their appointment reaffirms our
commitment to developing and empowering our customers, resellers and partners
in EMEA who are a vital part of our global sales and support strategy."

Aptare’s European
presence to date has been through partnerships with OEMs and MSPs with
European operations including Hitachi Data Systems, GlassHouse Technologies,
and Bull SAS.

The new Aptare European local presence will be responsible for
nurturing and growing Aptare’s European business by working locally with end
users, OEMs, resellers, and MSPs. The addition of
the UK team will enable this growth to accelerate and provide local support
for our partners and customers.